Orb Ponderings

Oscar ('The Orb')  |  They/them | 24 | Primary: @blodeuwedd | My art tag: #orb drawn | Poster of Siddig Images™️ and other such things

[garaks-padded-cell]

[garaks-padded-cell]

My french buddy doing his best

[flavorcountry]

Dr. Mae Jemison, MD, the first black woman in space and first actual astronaut to appear on a Star Trek show, one of the very few people on this planet of whom two pictures can be posted depicting them doing their job on a spaceship with entirely different contexts.

[simpleescapism]

Holy shit this is a serious contender for the best post I’ve ever seen on tumblr.

[lost-carcosa]

Star Trek: The Next Generation s6e24 Second Chances

[calumsash]

sometimes a song is good because you saw it on a fan edit for your favorite ship like ten years ago

[heatherwitch]

Ray Bradbury’s short story “There Will Come Soft Rains” that was written in 1950 is set on the day of August 4th, 2026 (tomorrow)!! Now’s your chance to read it around the time it’s based in!

Audio: A recording of Leonard Nimoy reading it on Internet Archive.

Text: A PDF version.

Graphic Novel: On Internet Archive.

[unamccormack]

I used to set this one for second year undergraduate creative writing seminars on writing science fiction on a double bill with Octavia E. Butler's "Bloodchild" and no-one here gets out alive.

[regionalpancake]

!!!! Today is the only chance we’ll ever have to listen to this absolute banger of apocalyptic fiction on the very day the story is set 😲✨

Nemoy’s voice is PERFECT in this!

(A content warning if you do listen - the dog dies, though it’s not super graphic)

[regionalpancake]

I paused the robot vacuum so I could listen to this 1950’s story predicting the robot vacuum.

[frogayyyy]

Spin this wheel twice... These are your new roommates at Starfleet Academy!

How do you feel about this?

AMAZING!!!! This is the best case scenario

Great! I like both of these people

Good.

Eh... Could be better, but it could be worse

Bad. I'm not going to enjoy this year

TERRIBLE. Someone will end up dead

I'm dropping out

other/nuance/secret whatever option

Voting ended onAug 6

if one/both of your new roommates is a child you assume responsibility of that child

if you get the same person twice, you have to live with both of them

[frogayyyy]

there's actually only one best case scenario

[satsumaorenji]

[datsderbunnyblog]

This comment was left on a post about making the most of the Libby app. "Excessive use of generous lending policies" is the most absurd phrase I've ever seen anyone use to discuss libraries.

[catboycommunist]

evergreen

[midnightinjapan]

This tag deserves a spotlight

[derinthescarletpescatarian]

Everyone go make excessive use of your local library's generous lending policies to borrow my books and read them for free. Thank you libraries.

[unamccormack]

Yes, please, particularly in the UK and Ireland where I get remunerated through the Public Lending Right scheme, set up by activist lesbian socialists to make sure writers earn money when their texts are borrowed from libraries.

[novakspector]

[hobe-bryant]

This is why Sisko is the greatest to ever do it, you don't see any other captains taking a second to force on their Customer Service Smile™

[lakariancityamusementcenteradult]

Me if they made rewatching The Wire illegal

[garaks-padded-bra]

the one nut dax cant crack

[axolkitkat]

@garaks-padded-cell

[deadmaidclub]

idk what do you guys think they did with all that time in prison. this was really the only option to me.

[spockvarietyhour]

Trampoline Day on the Promenade (The Emissary rides free)

[exlibra]

i have this half-baked idea about molly o’brien working on a school project on the different species and cultures on ds9 and she has to go around interviewing people about their home planets and their animals/plants/climate

worf (has barely been on qo’nos): ”the targ is a beautiful and honorable animal.” end of interview. 0/10.

jadzia: in-depth and quite disgusting explanation about how the symbiont works, including the transplantation process. way too many medical details are included but molly seems to like it. 5/10.

garak: in-depth explanation about the different animals and plants on prime with a long detour into what types of poetry have been written about each one. he goes home and drinks himself to sleep afterwards. alcohol poisoning/10.

quark: ”yeah ferenginar fucking SUUUUUUUCKS. write that down, kid. S-U-C-K-S” useless/10.

[exlibra]

odo: slithers into a drain to avoid questions about the founders and also because he’s scared of human children. slime/10

julian: HE’S GOT SO MUCH TO TELL YOU ABOUT EARTH AND ALSO BIG PUPPY EYES. irrelevant to the assignment/10

[unamccormack]

Miles: lovingly prepares a full presentation about the birdlife of Ireland; Molly doesn’t ask him. Sad/10

[small-delta]

together we are deep space nine

[garaks-padded-cell]

If i won the lottery i would give it all to u thats how much i fw this

[mars-gallavanger]

I Grew Up Room Shaped!

[particlewaveform]

would genuinely kill to see these two bad bitches go head to head

zany race to see who can commit the most war crimes